Turkey
Çankırı Province
Cankiri

Çankırı

Çankırı is a city in , about 140 km north of Ankara. It's industrial and modern, but lying on a trade route across the Anatolian plateau, has several old buildings of interest.
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  • Type: City with 186,000 residents
  • Description: district and town in Turkey
  • Also known as: “Changri”, “Chankiri”, “Gangra Germanicopolis”, “Ghanjarah”, “Kandari”, “Kanghari”, “Kangırı”, and “Γερμανικόπολις”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Çankırı Museum and Great Mosque of Çankırı.

Museum
Photo: Cobija, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Mosque
Photo: KucukCAYkasiklari, CC BY 2.5.

Mosque
Photo: Arif miletli, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a mosque.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hıdırlık.

Village
is a village in the Çankırı District of in Turkey. Its population is 37.

Çankırı

Latitude
40.5972° or 40° 35′ 50″ north
Longitude
33.6213° or 33° 37′ 17″ east
Population
186,000
Elevation
727 metres (2,385 feet)
United Nations Location Code
TR CKR
Open location code
8GGMHJWC+VG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5798692759
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
749748
Wiki­data ID
Q209925
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Çankırı” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جانقري”
  • Arabic: “جنقرة”
  • Arabic: “جَنْقَرَة”
  • Armenian: “Չանկիրի”
  • Armenian: “Չանքըրը”
  • Asturian: “Çankırı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çanqırı”
  • Belarusian: “Чанкыры”
  • Bengali: “চানকিরি”
  • Bulgarian: “Чанкъръ”
  • Catalan: “Čangiri”
  • Catalan: “Cankiri”
  • Catalan: “Čankiri”
  • Catalan: “Çankiri”
  • Catalan: “Çankırı”
  • Catalan: “Čengiri”
  • Catalan: “Djandjara”
  • Catalan: “Gangra”
  • Catalan: “Germanicòpolis de Paflagonia”
  • Catalan: “Jhandjara”
  • Catalan: “Khandjara”
  • Cebuano: “Khanjarah”
  • Chechen: “Чанкири”
  • Chinese: “Çankırı”
  • Chinese: “昌克勒”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Çankırı”
  • Czech: “Çankırı”
  • Danish: “Cankiri”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Çanqıriye”
  • Dutch: “Cankiri”
  • Dutch: “Çankırı”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جانقرى”
  • Esperanto: “Çankırı”
  • Finnish: “Çankırı”
  • French: “Cankiri”
  • French: “Çankiri”
  • French: “Cankırı”
  • French: “Çankırı”
  • French: “Gangra”
  • French: “Gangres”
  • French: “Kiangari”
  • Gagauz: “Çankırı”
  • Georgian: “ჩანქირი”
  • German: “Cankiri”
  • German: “Çankırı”
  • Gilaki: “چانقري”
  • Greek: “Γάγγρα”
  • Greek: “Τσανκιρί”
  • Gujarati: “કેનકિરી”
  • Hebrew: “צ’נקירי”
  • Hindi: “चानकिरी”
  • Hindi: “सानकीरी”
  • Hungarian: “Çankırı”
  • Indonesian: “Çankırı”
  • Irish: “Çankırı”
  • Italian: “Çankırı”
  • Italian: “Gangra”
  • Italian: “Germanicopoli”
  • Japanese: “Çankırı”
  • Japanese: “チャンクル”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾಂಕಿರಿ”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Çankırı”
  • Korean: “찬크르”
  • Korean: “창키리”
  • Kurdish: “Çankırı (bajar)”
  • Kurdish: “Çankırı”
  • Latin: “Gangra”
  • Latvian: “Čankiri”
  • Lithuanian: “Čankiris”
  • Malay: “Cankiri”
  • Malay: “Cankırı”
  • Malay: “Çankırı”
  • Marathi: “कॅनकिरि”
  • Mazanderani: “چانقری”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Çankırı”
  • Minangkabau: “Çankırı”
  • Moksha: “Чанкыры”
  • Nauru: “Çankırı”
  • Northern Frisian: “Çankırı (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Çankırı”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cankiri”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cankiri”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Çankırı”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gangra”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Germanikopolis”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Germanopolis”
  • Norwegian: “Çankırı”
  • Ossetian: “Чанкыры”
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “کنغری”
  • Persian: “چانقری”
  • Persian: “چانکری”
  • Persian: “چانکیری”
  • Polish: “Cankiri”
  • Polish: “Çankırı”
  • Polish: “Gangra”
  • Portuguese: “Çankırı”
  • Portuguese: “Changra”
  • Portuguese: “Chanquere”
  • Portuguese: “Gangra”
  • Portuguese: “Germanicopolis”
  • Portuguese: “Germanicópolis”
  • Portuguese: “Germanópolis”
  • Romanian: “Cankırı”
  • Romanian: “Çankırı”
  • Russian: “Чанкыры”
  • Scots: “Çankırı”
  • Serbian: “Чанкири”
  • Serbian: “Чанкури”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Çankırı”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gangra”
  • Sinhala: “කැන්කිරි”
  • South Azerbaijani: “چانقری”
  • Spanish: “Çankiri”
  • Spanish: “Cankirı”
  • Spanish: “Çankirı”
  • Spanish: “Cankırı”
  • Spanish: “Çankırı”
  • Spanish: “Gangra”
  • Swahili: “Çankırı”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Çankırı”
  • Swedish: “Çankırı”
  • Tajik: “Чонқири”
  • Tajik: “Чонқирӣ”
  • Tamil: “கான்கிரி”
  • Tatar: “Чанкыры”
  • Telugu: “కాన్కిరి”
  • Thai: “ชังคือรือ”
  • Turkish: “Çankırı”
  • Turkish: “Kengiri”
  • Udmurt: “Чанкыры”
  • Ukrainian: “Гангра”
  • Ukrainian: “Гангри”
  • Ukrainian: “Германікополіс”
  • Ukrainian: “Германополіс”
  • Ukrainian: “Чанкири”
  • Urdu: “چانقری”
  • Vietnamese: “Cankiri”
  • Vietnamese: “Çankırı”
  • Volapük: “Çankiri”
  • Volapük: “Çankırı”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Çankırı”
  • Western Mari: “Чанкыры”
  • Western Panjabi: “چنکیری”

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